1720s

• 1720: EDMOND HALLEY BECAME SECOND ASTRONOMER ROYAL OF ENGLAND

1760s

• 1763: FRANCE CEDED CANADA TO ENGLAND AT THE TREATY OF PARIS, ENDING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

1840s

• 1840: QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM MARRIED PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE COBURG-GOTHA
• 1841: ACT OF UNION MERGED UPPER AND LOWER CANADA

1860s

• 1863: SHOWMAN P. T. BARNUM STAGED THE WEDDING OF GENERAL TOM THUMB AND MERCY LAVINIA WARREN (BOTH LITTLE PEOPLE) IN NEW YORK. THEY HAD TO STAND ON A PIANO TO GREET THEIR GUESTS.
• 1863: ALANSON CRANE PATENTED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER SYSTEM

1880s

• 1883: ONTARIO’S FIRST FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPENED, IN GUELPH

1890s

• BORN 1890: BORIS PASTERNAK (POET)
• BORN 1892: ALAN HALE (ACTOR)
• BORN 1893: BILL TILDEN, JR. (TENNIS PLAYER)
• BORN 1893: JIMMY DURANTE (COMEDIAN)
• BORN 1897: JOHN F. ENDERS (SCIENTIST, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE IN 1954)
• BORN 1898: BERTOLT BRECHT (DRAMATIST)

1900s

• BORN 1906: LON CHANEY, JR. (ACTOR)

1910s

• 1916: GERMAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED THE U.S. THAT AFTER MARCH 1, 1916, ARMED MERCHANTMEN WOULD BE TREATED AS WARSHIPS AND ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING (WW I)

1920s

• BORN 1927: LEONTYNE PRICE (OPERA SINGER)

1930s

• BORN 1930: ROBERT WAGNER, JR. (ACTOR)
• 1931: NEW DELHI BECAME THE CAPITAL OF INDIA
• 1933: THE NEW YORK CITY-BASED POSTAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY INTRODUCED THE FIRST SINGING TELEGRAM
• BORN 1939: ROBERTA FLACK (SINGER)
• BORN 1939: ADRIENNE CLARKSON (CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL)

1940s

• 1942: THE FIRST GOLD RECORD WAS AWARDED FOR SALES OF OVER ONE MILLION COPIES. IT WAS GLENN MILLER’S “CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO” ON RCA
• 1949: ARTHUR MILLER’S PLAY DEATH OF A SALESMAN PREMIERED IN NY

1950s

• BORN 1950: MARK SPITZ (OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL SWIMMER)
• BORN 1955: GREG NORMAN (GOLFER)
• DIED 1957: LAURA INGALLS WILDER (AUTHOR)

1960s

• BORN 1961: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (POLITICAL CONSULTANT & COMMENTATOR)
• 1962: SOVIETS RELEASED U.S. U-2 PILOT FRANCIS GARY POWERS IN BERLIN IN EXCHANGE FOR CONVICTED SOVIET AGENT RUDOLF ABEL
• BORN 1964: VICTOR DAVIS (OLYMPIC SWIMMER)
• DIED 1966: BILLY ROSE (COMPOSER & BANDLEADER)
• 1967: THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WAS RATIFIED, PROVIDING A CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
• BORN 1967: LAURA DERN (ACTRESS)
• 1968: PEGGY FLEMING WON AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN FIGURE SKATING

1970s

• 1970: ARAB TERRORISTS KILLED 1 ISRAELI AND WOUNDED 11 OTHERS IN AN ATTACK AT THE MUNICH, WEST GERMANY, AIRPORT

1980s

• 1982: 28 SKIERS PERFORMED BACKFLIPS WHILE HOLDING HANDS, BROMONT QUÉBEC

1990s

• BORN 1991: EMMA ROBERTS (ACTRESS)
• DIED 1992: ALEX HALEY (AUTHOR)
• 1992: BONNIE BLAIR BECAME THE FIRST U.S. MEDAL WINNER AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN ALBERTVILLE IN THE WOMEN’S 500-METER SPEED SKATING. ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN IN OLYMPIC HISTORY TO WIN CONSECUTIVE WINTER OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS
• BORN 1994: MAKENZIE VEGA (ACTRESS)
• 1996: GARRY KASPAROV BEGAN CHESS MATCH AGAINST COMPUTER “DEEP BLUE”25 Years Ago

2000s

• DIED 2000: JIM VARNEY (ACTOR)
• DIED 2002: RETIRED LT. GEN. VERNON WALTERS (AMBASSADOR TO THE UN AND GERMANY)
• 2003: BRETT HULL SCORED HIS 700TH NHL GOAL
• DIED 2005: ARTHUR MILLER (PLAYWRIGHT)
• DIED 2008: ROY SCHEIDER (ACTOR)

2010s

• 2011: RAY ALLEN OF THE BOSTON CELTICS SANK HIS 2,561ST 3-POINTER, BREAKING THE NBA RECORD SET BY REGGIE MILLER
• DIED 2014: SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK (ACTRESS)
• 2017: PENUMBRAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.

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